
Digital Town Square
Machine Intelligence Comes to Content Creation
A half-day forum about how content recognition, speech to text, natural language processing, machine learning, deep learning, and AI are poised to impact content creation.
Tech and content demos, panels, presentations and 360-degree discussions were about: What are the new machine intelligence powered technologies and tools for content creation and how can we improve them? What repetitive and time-consuming tasks will they eliminate, and how can they bolster the creative process? What challenges will we face integrating machine intelligence into workflows and how can we ameliorate them? How will machine intelligence alter job descriptions, staffing and crewing and how can the industry get ready for the transition? What new forms of content will machine intelligence enable?
Target Audience
Film and TV studio, mini-studio, network, OTT executives and technologists working in production and post; editorial, visual effects and postproduction facility executives and technologists; leading filmmakers working on set, and in editorial, visual effects and post; executives and technologists at hardware and software companies.
Tech and content demos, panels, presentations and 360-degree discussions were about: What are the new machine intelligence powered technologies and tools for content creation and how can we improve them? What repetitive and time-consuming tasks will they eliminate, and how can they bolster the creative process? What challenges will we face integrating machine intelligence into workflows and how can we ameliorate them? How will machine intelligence alter job descriptions, staffing and crewing and how can the industry get ready for the transition? What new forms of content will machine intelligence enable?
Target Audience
Film and TV studio, mini-studio, network, OTT executives and technologists working in production and post; editorial, visual effects and postproduction facility executives and technologists; leading filmmakers working on set, and in editorial, visual effects and post; executives and technologists at hardware and software companies.
Speakers and participants
Lysa Banks
Head, Technical Strategy & Engineering, IBM Watson Media
Yves Bergquist
CEO, Novamente / Project Director, Data & Analytics, ETC
Linda Borgeson
SVP, Feature Post Production, Walt Disney Studios
Norman Hollyn
Editor & Professor, USC School of Cinematic Arts
Eric Iverson
CIO, Creative Artists Agency (CAA)
Rev Lebaredian
VP, GameWorks & Lightspeed Studios, Nvidia
Gray Marshall
DI Colorist & Recovering VFX Supervisor
Erick Moen
Research Associate, Center for Cyber-Physical Systems & the Internet of Things, USC
Jovan Popovic
Sr. Principal Scientist, Adobe Systems
Usman Shakeel
Worldwide Technology Leader, M & E, Amazon Web Services
Daniel De la Rosa
Director, Film Production Technologies, Universal Pictures
Mark Raudonis
SVP Post Production, Bunim-Murray
Jason Brahms
Managing Partner & CEO, Video Gorillas
Jean Bolot
VP, Research and Innovation, Technicolor Research Center
Amit Pande
Project Management Lead, Google Cloud
Dr. Bart Andrew Kosko
Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering and Professor of Engineering and Law, USC Gould School of Law
Debajyoti (Deb) Ray
CTO, End Cue
Jeffrey Wike
SVP, CTO, DreamWorks Animation
Harry Yoon
Editor






